Here are some classic quotes from this interview, including a few full-on belly laughs. (Hint: keep your eyes open for the dancing monkeys!) Ya gotta love it. Congrats, Adam!
AD = Adam Doxtater. AD: [snip...] We take in a lot of feedback from our visitors. NF: And how does that relate to Linux? AD: We've created something that has formed a legitimate community of great people. If Linux, and Mad Penguin, is the one thing that can bind people of differing backgrounds, religion, or political views, then I want to be the one helping to tie the knot. Linux and open source as a whole promote many of the finer qualities we all have: leadership, motivation, teamwork, and charity without the promise of monetary other other material gain. [snip....] NF: How does a site like Mad Penguin acquire staffing? AD: It's actually an amazing thing. The short answer is that the staff comes to me. For the most part people seem to just want to be a part of it all. But that's open source, right? Much of what you see today was directly contributed by our readers through suggestion. Mad Penguin essentially has a core cast, if you will, and they keep it going. Fred Blaise is one of the people who simply lived and breathed Mad Penguin. He's my right-hand man. Then there's Narayan Newton, another devoted Mad Penguin member turned sysadmin. He's been our FreeBSD guru since we've moved over to the new system. NF: So have you met all of the people you work with on Mad Penguin? AD: Personally? In person? God no! I'm a recluse! I can't even go to Wal-Mart without being sedated! Actually I've met Fred, Narayan, James (of course), and another member from the site named Grigg. snip.... NF: Are there any comical things that have happened on the site that you wouldn't mind sharing? AD: You mean that are fit to print? As a matter of fact, we were laughing about some of this stuff the other day. We considered making a quotes page of all the off-color and funny things people have done and said on the site. Here's one for you. We had published a review of -- SUSE I think it was -- anyway, there was some jerkoff that kept posting derogatory shit on the review and it was totally unwarranted. We blocked his IP address after he'd been warned several times. After a short while he came back with a different address touting that he could use any one of several thousand addresses. I don't go for that kind of shit at all, so I checked the origin of both IPs he used, traced them both back to Deutsch Telecom, and closed the Mad Penguin servers their entire IP block. That shut him up pretty quickly! Since that day it's been kind of a running joke in the Mad Penguin camp. Why ban one person when you can ban him and his entire continent to prove your point? Kind of sums up the Mad Penguin philosophy doesn't it? Why do it big if you can do it bigger and with dancing monkeys? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
